What's this all about? The interface by which the worlds of visual art and sound art increasingly interleave has become known by the technological phenomena of 'convergence' - a top-down movement driven by the digital process, gathering all media practitioners at the point of the cursor and the pixel with a shared vision of file structures, output resolution, cut, splice and loop.

However, in the scramble to keep pace with the changing paradigm many have overlooked the fact that the most compelling exchange is not technologically driven, but takes place bottom-up; a dialogue of forms at the point of source; at composition, language, manipulating information, understanding structures, patterns and processes, organising stimuli, deconstructing nature, remapping the rigid grid of space and time. Whether in film, design, music or science, this is the point at which all actions become sound, all words become colour and all music becomes light.

Any UK punters wishing to pull a 'sicky' and rock the night with us are welcome to email for special travel info, tips and directions. Come and play in a carnival of magnificent experimental music and film.

There has
been a great deal of activity at No Immortal over the past year,
much of it behind the scenes; so expect a slew of announcements in due course! In
the meantime, if you haven’t
done so already, please check out some of the new arrivals at our webstore.
Ben Sheppee’s Hidden Partition DVD is currently
being talked up a storm in the press, receiving a coveted ‘DVD of the
Month’ from DJ Magazine,
amongst other supporters. D-Fuse are onto huge things with that floppy fringed
maestro, Beck, at the moment, so they can be forgiven for not schmoozing with
us at the usual crack parties of late. See what all the fuss is about on the D-Tonate_00 DVD
here. Also, don’t forget that we still have a few remaining copies
of the excellent Resonance FM compilation, Flatpack
Antenna. When they’re
gone, they’re gone, etc...

Gig-wise, we have some bedouin action on the radar, for the London crew:

The autonomous polysexual cabaret with a punk rock ethic climaxes its first year
celebrations with a special performance at BAC. Bad Look Boudoir will
be one of the most memorable appearances from this star-mangled band of outlaw
renegades. Will contain nudity, swearing and men from Texas. Over 18’s
only.

We're greatly saddened by the tragic loss of our friend
Casper Pound of Rising High. Casper passed away in his sleep
on Friday after a very difficult number of years recovering from
major surgery. His passing comes at a time when he was once again
beginning to look to the future with his characteristic infectious
enthusiasm and unique vision. Casper was an inspiration to a
generation of music lovers throughout the world and to all those
he worked, played and partied with. His open heart, open
mind and generous spirit will be sorely missed, but never forgotten.
We know at least that somewhere, Casper Pound will still be Flying
High. Our thoughts go out to his family and his beloved daughter,
Sapho. You did it mate, rest in peace.

SECRET
ALL NIGHT EVENT, Hackney, London – more info soon
On Friday May 14 2004 Icarus celebrate the launch of their new
album "I Tweet the Birdy Electric"

Icarus will be joined by Dysfunktional Beats founder Bedouin Ascent,
and newly formed free jazz trio arthurs.dakiz.westerhus, conspiring
to bring several takes on a similar theme of exploratory and risky
improvisation via a great many speakers, the nature of their instruments
- laptops, technics, trumpets, 909s - falling gladly out of focus
in the wake of the aural mayhem. Expect chaos, unplanned melodies
and bird sounds.

Further entertainment will be supplied by the Parnassus Crew's
master of hardcore, darkcore, and those wicked quirky beats that
nobody else has got, DJ Laurent Duriaud, and rising star of avant
garde hip hop, DJ Woof Wan Bau, as well as Leaf Label chief DJ
Tony Morley and a special guest who needs no introduction, DJ Kieran
Hebden. Cine, still and video visuals will be provided by Parnassus
visual artists and their guests

The No Immortal rudeboy that is Ardisson is
breaking out his best beats and serving up a mid-week treat
in London this week. He’ll be performing at Plastic People
in Shorditch, East London. Get yerself down there for a sneak
preview of his new material coming out next on no immortal. Also
on the bill are Si Begg, Hatcha and Buddy Peace. Nice!

FOLLIE
ELECTRONIQUE!
13th-14th sept. 4pm start

Old skool to the Max! Bedouin Ascent performs a rare ‘midi-free’
analogue set at Follie Electronique. Armed with just a tr909, tr606,
tb303, x2 percussion synth and a pocketful of patch cables, he'll
ride the freak heat wave this weekend, outdoors at the
Kent music fest. This is not one to miss.

an incredible programme of events organised by ‘Next
5 Minutes’. It revolves around the notion of tactical
media, the fusion of art, politics and media. The festival is organised
irregularly, when the urgency is felt to bring a new edition of
the festival together. more info: http://www.n5m.org

A blend of cutting edge creative styles. The night starts with a few
experimental movies and animations, followed by live poetry, DJ’s,
live electronic music and frenetic visual feedback resonance with
some of the best VJ’s based in London.

Kingsuk
Biswas is performing at the Beyond
Nationality events in Switzerland – a festival of contemporary
music from Britain. For more information please contact Barbara
Mosca, Arts Manager, British Council Switzerland:

As part of the festival Bedouin Ascent is also performing at the ‘Cluster’
club night with live VJs Raya and dance troop 2BitTV in a specially
created performance/web club mix. An immersive and compelling merge
of bodies, data and space:
thursday 3 april 2003
the junction, clifton road, cambridge, CB1 7GX
entry: £5
time: 20:00–01:00
live webcast: click
here to access

The event also Features the brilliant Socket:
I Am The Mighty Jungulator (performance at 21:30)

A busy
time for Mieko Shimizu as she takes the Apache 61 experience on the
road for some action

- 20th feb.03: lauch party for the FACT
Centre. [Liverpool-based FACT is the UK's leading organisation for
the exhibition, support and development of artists' film, video and
new media projects.]

This ain't no gathering of eclectic minds! – this is the new
science of urban mixology. Plotting a course through the digitaglia
of Zen breaks and deconstructed funk, our pilots spin their jams way
off the flight path. Fractured times call for fractured beats. Where
did all the heart go? We're here to tell you that music was once wild,
dangerous and free.
Up is the new down, right is the new left, boy is the new girl. Come
and get yours...
upstairs [junk equation]: Kingsuk Biswas [no immortal], TJ
Rehmi [nation, A.J. [big chill], live visuals: Marc Everette [mesh],
Kingsuk Biswas.
downstairs [break_func]: State of Bengal, Patrick Forge,
Marque Gilmore, DJ Feelfree [vu], guest musicians, live visuals: coco
[vu]

Bedouin
Ascent is headlining at the beam festival curated by the Cube cinema.
He will be performing live in collaboration with visual artists D-fuse

Eye Jam
will be a VJ and video art festival running from the 7th to the 9th
feb-2003. Local, national and international artists will perform over
the three days.
Saturday will also feature a live performance by YeeKing (rephlex
records) and artist-run demos/workshops using Nato and Max, Vjamm,
Arkaos Hardware, Hippotizer hardware (primarily for club installations),
Resolume, MX12, Roland Video Canvas, Motion dive etc.

He'll be constructing a live, mixed-media collage, navigating a scratchy
path through irrational beats and structures, disjointed dialogue,
alien narratives and deconstructed funk. It's all in the ether, and
this promises to get beautifully out of hand!

Kingsuk
Biswas is teeming up with friends and long-time collaborators Ramjac
(irdial) and Dr.Das (Asian Dub Foundation) for a marathon 6 hour mix
jam to be broadcast live on stage4
and pirateTV. if you happen
to miss the live feed the mix will be archived on the site.

Kingsuk Biswas [Bedouin Ascent]
will be the guest on Magz Hall's excellent radio show on Resonance
104.4 FM, 'You Are Hear'. He will be performing exclusive new tracks,
live in the studio, and also talking about some of the ideas behind
his music, the label and live events.

Kingsuk Biswas presents a lecture and discussion for the Digital Dialogues
series entitled 'Ritual Systems & the Geometry of Possibility'.
Digital Dialogues will bring together a number of individuals whose
use of digital technology crosses traditional creative boundaries.
Also taking part is Clive Gillman, an artist in residence at FACT,
Britains leading video and new media organisation.

For more details contact projects@vivid.org.uk, or see www.vivid.org.uk
(0121 233 4061)

The
apache 61 china_syntax ep
is already getting heavy rotation on XFM and will be officially available
to buy on october the 1st. Advance copies can be purchased
right away however from our on-line shop.

SITE
NEWS:

Please
note that we will be upgrading this server next Tuesday, the 10th
September 2002 and the no-immortal site will be unavailable for a
few hours while this upgrade is performed. This will last from late
morning until mid-afternoon (GMT). We apologise for any inconvenience
that this will cause you.

Also, we have now added a links page to
the site. Hopefuly this will grow to form a focused resource of all
things progressive and creative.

A specially created performance/web club mixing sound and visual styles
with live digital performance. Featuring a cutting edge blend of Djs,
VJ's, MJs, from East England and London.
Cluster is a shinkansen production in collaboration with Future Physical
and London Arts, hosted by Norwich Arts Centre, Colchester Arts Centre
and ICA, with streaming media services by Groovy Gecko.

Plus futuristic experiments in real-time web streaming with inputs
from Colchester and London by Akademi of Indian Dance, Ambienttv.Net,
Kingsuk Biswas (Bedouin Ascent), People Like Us and Raya. of live/web
pieces, CellBytes between Norwich, Colchester and London
Live webcast: http://www.futurephysical.org/fphome.html
and follow the link to 'webcast' on the top left-hand side of the
page.

Apache 61’s Mieko Shimizu
will be hosting a two hour radio show on Resonance 104.4 FM, London's
first official radio art station. She will be joined by guests Kingsuk
Biswas [Bedouin Ascent] and Phil
Winter [Summit] for what promises to be a facinating journey through
the interleaving sonic paths of her extensive musical history. Be
prepared to make unexpected connections between a wide pallet of sounds
from around the world, interspersed with conversation and discussion
and previews of her forthcoming China_syntax EP!

Expect
the unexpected from what the Village Voice called the "Best
Radio station in the world". Resonance FM is a radio station
with no play lists, no smarmy jocks or pompous pundits; a radical
alternative to the universal formulas of mainstream broadcasting.

For those of you outside the Central London broadcast area the show
will be available simultaneously on www.resonancefm.com

Continuing the series looking at the new breed of human and computer
performer, the ICA present a NO IMMORTAL records night, with the very
best live electronic improvisation from the leading lights of the
beat scene. Check out the latest out-funk, punk jazz, degenerative
systems, non-linear breaks and beautifully out-of-hand code poetry_

No
Immortal presents a night of Outfunk / Punk Jazz / Free Funk
Jazz.
A live music extravaganza featuring the legendary 'Pinski Zoo' and
'Blurt' who have influenced a legion of freestyle techno, breakbeat
and hip hop experimentalists.

'..a
compelling power unique in English Jazz'. [The Wire]
Almost impossible to categorize they swing from virtuosic jazz to
gritty funk with freedom and movement, veering into leftfield territory
and returning with snappy anthem-like tunes. Unpredictable and exciting,
they carved a unique style in the UK and won praise from critics at
home and abroad. Sometimes a maelstrom of sound, other times a hypnotic
theme over backbeats, their eclectic fusion of style foreshadowed
the move towards mixing influences in much of today's modern music.
With 8 albums and extensive touring in Europe, and the USA in the
late 80's and 90's and a 'Best British Band at the British International
Jazz Awards in '91' they are back after several years of individual
projects.

A is for Anarchy, B is for Blurt, A Bee in The Bonnet, a Boot where
it Hurts...Ted Milton's Demonic sax, and shouty, dadaist poetry, anguished
& passionate psycho-funk, afro punk, fake no-wave trio.

Over a period of 17 years the mighty, mythic Blurt have festered and
fulminated, swaggered and evolved into an unusual and uncompromising
beast capable of a magic and sublime, dissonant and confrontationalist
music. Seminal influence on the contemporary dance scene, gyrating
& ranting harder than ever...

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CAMPAG VELOCET:

Campaq Velocet are clubbers Pete, Agre and Lascelles who've take an
unscheduled detour through left-field guitar music - energised by
hip hop artists like School D and Public Enemy, as well as the massive
signal beamed out of the Detroit techno scene.

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BEDOUIN ASCENT:

Kid 'groove' a'la abstract continues his search for the wrecked
angle. Hard, oblique, jazz and electronics. Catch him live in the
mix.

onedotzero
>> 07mar.02

oh-yes.
Kingsuk Biswas will be in the mix at the new onedotzero
film/design preview, with interactive visual accompaniment by dfuse.
He will be mashing up exclusive new bedouin ascent cuts for an unsuspecting
audience of media players & pimps, writers and groupies.

Radio 1 Hype:Bedouin Ascent is the rhythm as melody/digital
improvisation project of KINGSUK BISWAS, Digital/Art/Electronica Pioneer.
For the last decade he has been OUT THERE mixing live and digital,
West African percussion with North Indian classical modes and chaos
and quantum theories with Zen and Tao. His list of collaborators is
so impressive that you can frankly only bow down and rock to the beats
in his presence. They include Bill Laswell, David Toop, Zakir Hussein,
Jon Hassel, Plaid, Anokha and Talvin Singh. His new EP, JUNK FORCE,
came out in late November on the No Immortal label, destined to rock
our world in a fundamental manner. Catch him live on laptop and synths
at ONE WORLD LIVE at Notting Hill Arts Club
on January the 3rd, 2002.

DysFunkt!onal_live.arts
>> [2001]

in these
times of global patriarchal imperialism and rampant unilateralism
the world needs a dose of non-linearity like never before. no immortal
has been busy putting together an amazing programme of events to highlight
our interests and take great music and performances to all corners
of the uk. if you want to dismantle your personal regime let our beats
start you on that journey. remember - this is DysFunkt!on by form
not force. [new interviews and galleries
posted]

-
Essentially it's a platform to showcase live, improvised electronic
music and visual artforms which explore more non-linear forms
and structures than in regular commercial dance music (with a
particular emphasis on rhythmic deconstruction, jazz and fusion
sensibilities). Although experimental, these events are intended
to be very accessible and above all a great party atmosphere for
those not necessarily wishing to engage intellectually. It's all
about the science of the 'cut-up', whether in music, visuals,
design or writing for example.

-
This is also an opportunity to showcase 'freestyle' live sound
which is not often associated with the rigid structures of electronic
dance music. Musically it's about arrangements falling apart and
coming back together - invoking a perpetual and dynamic condition
- like a continual series of 'mistakes' with no real agenda, other
than the fact that it sounds good. The freedom of chance; the
opportunity for chance interaction within musical structures to
build their own narrative; the chance for artists to take some
risks they wouldn't normally be able to and collaborate on new
work. Anything's possible. That's both the danger and the beauty!

Total
immersion in the digital arts in a freeform way is the ethos of
the DysFunkt!onal_Beats Tour which is supported by the Arts Council
of England and futuresonic. Taking it further will be a compelling
selection of artists and DJ's on hand including 4Hero,
Future Sound of London, Luke Vibert, People Like Us, DJ Spooky,
Plaid and Bedouin Ascent,
plus visual art and design throughout (D-Fuse,
The Designers Republic, Addictive TV, etc).

...and while we get wild on the live circuit No Immortal is pleased
to announce that the Bedouin Ascent EP, Junk_force, is making it's
way onto record store shelves with accolades and airplay from the
likes of John Peel, Coldcut, Nick Luscombe, Mr Scruff and a host of
others.

Kingsuk
Biswas continues his no-fi games with rhythms so irrational they playfully
tease the linear structure of sequenced music to produce the exquisite
effect of perpetual rolling. Spiraling currents pulled by ever tighter
forces in an open field of possibility. Turning, turning... Lost forever
in the loving warmth of urban noise and the sweetest tension.
While the whole of the dance arena concerns itself with the mechanical
rhythm of propulsion - like drones synched to a universal clock, locked
in constant forward motion - junk_force adopts a wholly lateral stance.
Beats spiral, moving, at once, forward, sideways and backwards - like
the adrenaline rush of a brisk young breeze, constantly changing direction
- because there's just so much sky! Change is, ultimately, the only
constant.

+
Bedouin Ascent album 'Jerx' available early 2003

+
Apache 61 'china_syntax' ep available Oct 2002

+
Icarus material available 2003

+
WE ARE OFFERING ONE PAIR OF FREE TICKETS FOR DYSFUNKTIONAL BEATS @
93 FEET EAST , ON 6.12.01 TO THE FIRST THREE PEOPLE WHO CAN EMAIL
US THE QUESTION TO THE FOLLOWING ANSWER: